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RSS Comments
The United States won the 33rd America’s Cup with a design that got a boost from aeronautical engineering. The wing sail of BMW Oracle Racing’s BOR 90 is essentially an oversized airplane wing. At 190 feet tall, it’s the largest sail ever used on a boat.
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Tags: Aerospace Engineering, America's Cup, boat design, catamaran, Marine engineering, sailboat, yacht
In this activity, students in grades 6 to 8 learn about the engineering design process and the physical principles of buoyancy by working together to build a boat out of straws and plastic wrap that can hold 25 pennies for at least 10 seconds before sinking.
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Tags: boats, buoyancy, flotation, forces, Marine engineering, ocean engineering, sailboat
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